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Jack McNulty
Professor Rodrick
English 115
25 September 2017
From the stone ages to present day, human beings have been creators. Constructing new
technology as simple as the wheel and as complex as the computer circuit, the evolution of
creativity has been a non-stop ball of snow down a steep hill. And nothing explains us, humans,
better than the title of creators, its considered our identity. However, all of that is starting to
change as our love for creating begins to plunge deeper into technology. With the creation of
artificial intelligence, the human identity of creating will soon take a drastic turn. Artificial
intelligence is simply a very smart computer program. Its ability to learn from mistakes at an
almost dangerous rate allows it to evolve just like a human would, only at speeds thousands of
times faster than we ever could. These artificial intelligence programs are made in order to view
design aspects, safety issues, and much more from different angles that have never been thought
of before. Even though artificial intelligence could better society with innovative designs and
time-saving strategies, it diminishes the creative identity of humans, could replace creative jobs,
and human interaction is not needed once the artificial intelligence is made.
Looking at humans, we are observed as complex beings with a drive to create ideas and
technology that can better our society. This is what gives us purpose, this is what gives us our
identity. Without our creative identity, we are almost nothing to this world, and artificial
intelligence is going to remove that necessary aspect of our lives. Imagine a world where
essentially nothing is made by your own species, what would you do all day? Thats the problem
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here because artificial intelligence has the potential to completely take that power away from the
human species in the upcoming years. In the article The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence,
Kai-Fu Lee explains the effect that artificial intelligence will have on the overall function of
society in the upcoming years. The A.I. products that now exist are improving faster than most
people realize and promise to radically transform our world, not always for the better. Lee is
explaining the upcoming truth that artificial intelligence isnt just something of the future now
and that it can have detrimental effects on todays world. I agree with Lees statement because it
perfectly describes the upcoming event of a possible artificial intelligence takeover resulting in
diminished creative activity for humans. Some might say that having artificial intelligence will
help better the future with innovative designs and viewpoints that have never been tried before,
but looking at the aspect of human purpose, this is diminished because there would be no need
for humans to exist. The one aspect of artificial intelligence that most engineers dont see is that
artificial intelligence can be connected to anything electronic. They could easily take over whole
car factories by running and fixing the machines as well as ordering more supplies by connecting
itself to the internet. Now that were crossing over into the human job-loss category, this leads to
One thing that the human species does very well is create. Thats how we live in todays
society and specialized economies. Creating gives humans a purpose so we feel accomplished at
the end of the day knowing that we are working towards that big paycheck. Although, with the
creation of artificial intelligence hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost. Companies like
more in-depth view of artificial intelligence, it can be seen as a creative genius. Its essentially a
software that starts out in an infant stage where it knows nothing. Software engineers then train
it by assigning certain tasks that it must complete, such as walking. The artificial intelligence
runs through countless trials of error until it achieves its goal of walking. Although, along the
way it usually picks up new skills such as running, climbing and object awareness. This can all
be done in a matter of hours with a couple computers and some engineers. Now, this is pretty
cool and could lead to some interesting goals that are definitely in the grasps of the artificial
intelligence. Except one of those goals could be car designing, and next thing you know there is
no need for car designers. In the article Technology and Automation Increase Unemployment,
Martin Ford explains the effects that artificial intelligence will have on the job market. He
focuses mainly on low-paying factory jobs but includes jobs that require a lot of knowledge and
automation applications will increasingly enable computers to do jobs that require significant
training and education. The quote I pulled from Fords article explains his overall viewpoint on
the situation at hand. That artificial intelligence and other programs like it have the ability to take
over jobs that used to require a human touch. I agree but also disagree with Ford based on the
assumption that he does not think that artificial intelligence can take over creative jobs. Multiple
times Ford states that jobs that require education are at risk, but he fails to see that creative jobs
such as design are at risk as well. The potential of artificial intelligence is so broad that its
frightening because this could lead to most of the creative jobs held by humans to disappear and
replaced with artificial intelligence, thus taking away a large aspect of our identity.
The need for humans once artificial intelligence is fully developed drops significantly.
An artificial intelligence is just a genius human with unlimited power and capabilities so once
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created, it will be able to maintain itself. As mentioned before, the artificial intelligence starts out
as an infant and learns new skills by making mistakes. Later stages of artificial intelligence are
thought to have the capability of accessing information from the internet and learning just from
that. In the article Should Artificial Intelligence be Regulated? Amitai and Oren Etzioni speak
up on the topic with regulating artificial intelligence. Now, this article isnt specifically on my
argument in this paragraph but it makes some great points for it. Etzioni says AI is believe by
some to be on its way to producing intelligent machines that will be far more capable than
human beings. The quote does not specify whether or not Etzioni believes this or not but it does
make the point that artificial intelligence, in its later stages, will not require human interaction
because it can just make more of itself. However, Etzioni has no opinion on this, and from
reading the article I can make the assumption that she knows this is true. I agree with her
statement that artificial intelligence will soon surpass the need for human intelligence and human
creativity, while only relying on its own. These points are being made to prove that developing
complex artificial intelligence will not require any human interaction and therefore diminish the
Even though artificial intelligence could better society with innovative designs and time
saving strategies, it diminishes the creative identity of humans, could replace creative jobs, and
human interaction is not needed once the artificial intelligence is made. The main human identity
is the ability to create, we have been doing it for as long as the earth was made and we should
continue to do it for as long we can. Artificial intelligence has the potential to stop that with its
speed, power, and intelligence, it could abduct the one thing the human species is best at. With
the implementation of artificial intelligence, the creative identity of humans will be lost due to
the lack of creative jobs that will be taken over by the artificial intelligence programs. Once the
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artificial intelligence is created, it has the ability to develop itself making human interaction
obsolete. This will diminish the creative touch humans have to offer, lessening our identity as a
whole.
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Works cited
Etzioni, Amitai, and Oren Etzioni. "Should artificial intelligence be regulated?" Issues in Science
and Technology, vol. 33, no. 4, 2017, p. 32. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Accessed 1
Oct. 2017.
David Haugen and Susan Musser, Greenhaven Press, 2011. Opposing Viewpoints.
Truth About UnemploymentAnd Why It May Get Worse," Huffington Post, 19 Jan.
2010.
Lee, Kai-Fu. "The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence." New York Times, 25 June 2017, p.